Public Legal Education and Information in Ontario: Learning from a Snapshot (2015)
This mapping report provides an overview of PLEI resources available in Ontario, through the lens of topic and subtopic, as well as audience, format, language, intended use, and information provider. A key goal of this project was to identify opportunities for improved collaboration and coordination among PLEI providers in the province.

Current CLEO research projects

CLEO currently has two research projects underway:

Evolving Legal Services Research ProjectThis three-year research project, implemented with case studies in Ontario and British Columbia, looks at when PLE programs are effective and provide individuals meaningful access to justice, particularly people who are low income or have other disadvantages. For more information, visit the Evolving Legal Services Research page.

Legal Life Skills: a curriculum for adult learners and trainers
This research builds upon CLEO’s reports prepared in 2016 for the Canadian Bar Association on how legal capability or “legal life skills” training could be incorporated into existing life skills programs in Ontario. CLEO will develop select draft task sets on legal capability and pilot them through a job-readiness literacy training program in the Greater Toronto Area.

Completed CLEO research

Evolving Legal Services: Review of Current Literature (2013)
Report prepared for CLEO by Dr. Melina Buckley as part of the planning phase of our Evolving Legal Services Research Project (ELSRP). In the ELSRP project, CLEO aims to evaluate the impact of PLEI on the procedural and substantive outcomes experienced by people who receive PLEI as part of the continuum of legal services.

Aboriginal Peoples and Access to Legal Information (2006)
This report discusses the most effective PLEI methods for Aboriginal audiences, the role of Aboriginal languages in access to legal information, the legal issues identified based on feedback from respondents, and the appropriate role for CLEO as a non-Aboriginal agency in developing and providing PLEI for Aboriginal audiences.

Linguistic Access Report (2005)
This report suggests steps CLEO can take to help meet the public legal education needs of low-income communities in Ontario who do not speak French or English.